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Be good news. how on earth is that possible? after all, china relaxed its one-child policy last month precisely so it could avoid the fate of japan. and that fate, if you go by conventional wisdom, seems to be slowing growth and leading to unsustainable debt. why? our entire system is based on having enough young workers to pay for pensions and government services. well, according to the new scientists, perhaps weve been looking at the wrong data. consider growth. the number we tend to focus on ...

Fate of japan. and that fate, if you go by conventional wisdom, seems to be slowing growth and leading to unsustainable debt. why? our entire system is based on having enough young workers to pay for pensions and government services. well, according to the new scientists, perhaps weve been looking at the wrong data. consider growth. the number we tend to focus on the most. look at the performance of a selection of rich countries in the last decade. japans economy expanded by just 0.8% a year on ...

He got a major reform done of public employee pensions various things related to state and local government affairs. its been a big media record and hes gotten that done by figuring out what are all of the pours of the governors office and what are all of the things i can do to put pressure on people in the legislator and people at authorities. hes been very good at that. part of whats gone wrong in washington is all of the people in power there has 0 lost the ability to do this. the president c...

The fact we have so many challenges facing our men and women coming back. military retirees. the fact that the budget, they decided to take care of shortfalls by cuts to military retirees, i think, is grateful. >> the kufs to him military retirees are between 40 and 60 already retiring and working at other jobs so they are actually doing okay. the pension goes back up 1% once they get to 60 so that was a bit of a hype. i actually looked at that. >> i dont think that is the first place i would go...

We offer a very valuable insight that obviously can make the economy grow. >> interesting. also speculates more pensions should mandate that you get into these women run funds because they are more secure. melissa. >> it makes a lot of sense. if youre worried about balancing your portfolio, you obviously want to take some risks. with that can come great reward. its like owning bonds or anything else, you have to make sure you have stability in there. a lot of women hedge fund managers are provid...

Veterans. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> now they have done it, they cut the cost of living increases on the pensions, saying look, we only did it for people that are working age, by the way, there i still time before it kicks in, in 2016 for us to undo what we just did. >> right, whole new level of bipartisan stupidity. it will cut the retirements for the first class retirees, so you will see an $85,000 decrease in your retirement benefits over the course of your lifetime. so congress ...

Veterans. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> now they have done it, they cut the cost of living increases on the pensions, saying look, we only did it for people that are working age, by the way, there i still time before it kicks in, in 2016 for us to undo what we just did. >> right, whole new level of bipartisan stupidity. it will cut the retirements for the first class retirees, so you will see an $85,000 decrease in your retirement benefits over the course of your lifetime. so congress ...

General principle, if you just add in two pieces. i think any extended unemployment compensation ought to come attached with a learning apprenticeship, online education component. if people cant find a job in the initial 26 weeks, then anything beyond 26 weeks, they certainly should be signed up for job training to have new and better skills. i hope the republicans in the house and senate will insist on attaching a job training component. that turns it into the largest labor training program in ...

Much christie can get done in the scandals wake. democrats dismissed much of the governors address as talking points, accusing him of playing bait and switch with public pensions. they also released a web video calling the scandal an embarrassment. meanwhile, the "wall street journal" has photos of governor christie with david wildstein, the port authority official who authorized the bridge closures during one of the days of the closures. now, christie has said he had not had contact with wildst...

There he quickly addressed the controversy head on. >> without a doubt, we will cooperate with all appropriate inquiries to ensure that this breach of trust does not happen again. but i also want to assure the people of new jersey today that what has occurred does not define us or our state. this administration and this legislature will not allow the work that needs to be done to improve the peoples lives in new jersey to be delayed for any reason. >> but it remains to be seen how much christie ...